This week's winner is Midway Records from Goin' Round in Circles. Her winning entry of "She had him in her sights from day one!" wins the pendant. Miss Records, please e-mail me (rachel@twodogpond.com) your mailing address and I will get your necklace right out to you.
We haven't had a Cowgirl image for ages, and they are my favorite! So - this week's Necklace Contest image is, yes - a Cowgirl. The contest is simple: enter a phrase, quote, passage you think would be perfect for the back side of this image and sometime on Friday a winner will be chosen and rewarded with a soldered glass pendant on a 24" chain. For more details, read the rules on the side... Yeehaw! Let's ride!
This week's winner is the fabulous Christine of Vintage Christine! She has won a necklace or two in the past - the w a a a y past, and it's great to have her quirky humor back. There were quite a few good entries this week - you all make it hard to choose just one winner! Anyway - Congratulations to Vintage Christine! E-mail me your address and I will mail your winning soldered glass pendant on a 24" ball chain. 
Here's a lovely old postcard image. Pear-fect for a pendant!
Since I saved so ding-dang much money by having my own personal art camp, I bought the YUDU system. You know, the one you see on the infomercials where they talk about how easy it is to silkscreen your own t-shirts, pillows, canvas totes, etc.... well - it is as easy as they say!
This is the first shirt I made. I made three of them and plan on making more. 
In case you can't read it, it says "Two Dog Pond - Living life on a gravel road ...and loving it"
I bought this kit on clearance at Michael's a couple years ago. I love words. I love cement and rocks. It's my personal Art Camp, so I decided to make a brick.
mix up the cement.
slather it in the mold and press in the letters....
VOILA! 
Safety first. My first project today was to make my safety goggles more user friendly for middle aged eyes. I took the arms off a pair of readers and tied them to the goggles. Yes. I am a geek. Yes. I can now see what I'm doing...
I used my die cutter to cut some circles out of an old English tin
then used my dome block set to make them, well - domed.
I cut some 1" pieces of copper and punched circles out of the middles, then cut 1.25" pieces of brass and filed it all down to non-dangerous edges.
I also torched the copper to give it a lovely patina, then center punched and drilled holes in the metal pieces. I riveted the copper, brass, and lovely tin domes together and attached the pieces to make this chunky bracelet:
This is a close up. Look at the patina on the copper. Love it.
This idea was all mine, I am proud to say. Now I'd like to switch the copper and the tin around so that there's more pattern. AND - I would like to learn to etch the copper. AND - I need to make a pretty clasp for this. I used a brass lobster clast. Boring, but functional. Craft Camp is going way too fast! I still want to silk-screen some tees and make some stepping stones!!
This week's Two Dog Pond Necklace Contest winner is Tracey of Spending Time with her winning entry of "The voices on my head told me". I like that so much I did it in four different colors! Tracey... e-mail me your mailing address (rachel@twodogpond.com) and tell me which color you would like and I will get that right out to you!
Meanwhile - you might want to quit listening to the voices that tells you that you are a human clothesline.... (this is Blog stalking at its best...) You Canadians are wild!!
For me, it just isn't Art Camp unless I make some fine silver pendants....
These were started on Wednesday and finished up today... I lost two of the earrings already. Just like real Art Camp.
This is a preview of another project I'm working on...
Crop your photo and take it into Photoshop and Posterize it - like this.... then print it out.
I chose to use a white background which is different than what the Dude did, and I forgot to wash my hands after eating a cheeseburger, so mine has a few grease marks on it, his did not. First Layer cut:
...sometimes I got confused. Do not drink wine while cutting yours out. It just makes things confusing....
I didn't have the repositionable spray adhesive used by the Dude, so I used my rubber cement and a tweezers. Rubber cement makes glue boogers. Make sure you wipe them off your face.
a little more confusion...
It's taking shape here...
Pop the finished piece into a record album frame and Ta! Da!
I kind of like it.
The Sweatshop Girlies, Lynnie and JillyBean, requested this image for this week's contest...
and that's just one piece of her prize. Holy Cow! Go now!!
...or is it this piece that I crave...
no. no. no. it's these scarves....
I am so excited! Just ten minutes ago the UPS man arrived with a huge package from my friend Jim in San Francisco. I immediately hung it on the wall above my work bench. This is a painting I did in college 30 years ago (is that possible???). Jim has moved it with him and had it hanging in his home in New York, Austin, Iowa, Kansas City and San Francisco. Amazing. I was not able to hang on to one single painting I did in college - (mostly ex-husbands scattered them about), but Jim did. It's not even a good painting, but seeing it again is bringing back tons of memories and making me smile. I love having it again. It's called "God wipes out the penguins". We went to a small Christian college, so I'm sure I impressed the art faculty with this one...
This week's winner was chosen by my sister Rhodie who is visiting Two Dog Pond from Southern California. She about peed her pants laughing at some of the entries, but LOVED Miss Kitty's entry of "What happens in Canada, stays in Canada." 
Thank you, Rhodie! and Thank you, Kitty! and Thank you, Canada, just for being you.
This wonderful image is complements of LynnW (see the post below) - isn't it great?
After winning the "Sometimes We Just Need Someone to Listen" pendant a couple weeks ago, LynnW send a sweet thank you note and a generously magical pile of photos, postcards, and images she thought I might like. LIKE? says me... More like LOVE!! Thank you, LynnW!!! I'm using one for this week's contest!!
Thought you might enjoy seeing some more Hooker Upcycled Silver Spoon Pendants and finished necklaces too...
... yesterday was so beautiful that I sat on the deck and finished this Wild Granny Squares afghan. I am particularly proud of the lacy edge...
Congratulations goes to TLee, this week's necklace contest winner!! TLee wins with her entry of "Next Stop...Reality!" There were lots of great entries this week - thanks to everyone who entered. Seems there might be something a bit wacky going on though. I am missing a few comments (I made them) from the comment queue... I hope that no one else's got booted - I swear I did not delete anything! It also seems that there's been a bit-o-trouble in getting signed in and receiving weird error codes. That's what took so long to let TLee know she's a winner! (TLee is a winner whether I declare it or not!!♥) Perhaps blogger is experiencing the same troubles that Toyota is with the sun beam energy boosts making the gas pedal stick.... 
The Rug Hookers, that is.... those wonderful women that hook the most beautiful rugs out of wool are having a Hook-In with Judy again, and Judy asked me to come up with some new jewelry for them. Knowing that they love upcycling wool into rugs, I thought they might enjoy some upcycled silver! I'm working on a ton of new soldered glass pendants too...
